Asa Biggs

Asa Biggs (4 February 1811-6 March 1878) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-NC 9) from 4 March 1845 to 3 March 1847 (succeeding Kenneth Rayner and preceding Kevin Outlaw) and a US Senator from 4 March 1855 to 5 May 1858 (succeeding George Edmund Badger and preceding Thomas Lanier Clingman).

Biography
Asa Biggs was born in Williamston, North Carolina in 1811, and he was admitted to the bar in 1831. He served in the state legislature before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1845 to 1847, and, in 1851, he helped to codify state laws. He then served in the US Senate from 1855 to 1858, when he accepted an appointment as a federal judge; he resigned in 1861 when his state seceded. He died in 1878.